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Bienvenidos Lectores de La Tercera/LUN/BioBio etc. 21 Aug 2011 | 02:35 am
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I'm moving! Change your feeds to bearshapedsphere.com 8 Mar 2011 | 08:31 am
Having finally moved physically from Barrio Brasil to República, and with the patient help of Pam Mandel from nerdseyeview I am becoming a digital migrant of sorts, leaving behind the orange and blue,...
Nary a Hanga Roa in Hanga Roa, Easter Island report 2, now with jabón gringo 7 Mar 2011 | 10:16 am
Before I left for Easter Island, I was charged by one of my work gigs with doing some research (and writing) on the island. This was nearly a first for me. I am the person who managed to go to Milan a...
Food and Drink Nostalgia, Chilean Style: Sorbete Letelier 3 Mar 2011 | 01:55 am
In an apparently Chilean tradition of basing hypersweet drinks on the flavor of dried fruit (see: Mote con Huesillo), there's a soda in Chile based on the flavor of dried cherries. And not just any dr...
Green Celery to me! (Easter Island report, with birthday blabla) 1 Mar 2011 | 02:47 am
For reasons too complex and probably personal, all of which have to do with someone's precipitous and precocious death and feared short life expectancy and really, I am that person who has been to two...
On the anniversary of the 2010 Chilean Earthquake 27 Feb 2011 | 04:42 pm
On the anniversary of a terrible date in recent Chilean history, the 27th of February, nearly a year is completed from the 3:34 AM earthquake in Chile that would generate a tsunami that would wash awa...
Poof! I'm home! 26 Feb 2011 | 03:46 pm
Iorana! Despite the presence of a wholly unlikeable seatmate on my flight home (oh! the scalp-scratching, the hangnail chewing, the using of saliva to clean the screen in front of him), I am so peace...
Rapa Nui Day 1 report, reflections, nada mas. 19 Feb 2011 | 04:40 pm
Today a woman I had met not more than 30 minutes earlier handed me her adorable 14 month old daughter in a pink rash suit and matching flowered sunhat while she (the woman) struggled on the sharp rock...
Chileans make fun of gringos speaking Spanish! (again!) This time: Lah Peeohhaira 15 Feb 2011 | 02:29 am
The last post, where I talk about whether or not walking more than kung fu (caminar mas que kung fu) is a potentially offensive expression, brought up issues of language and sensitivity. I am particul...
Caminar mas que Kung Fu: More lessons in Chilean Slang 12 Feb 2011 | 05:28 am
It wasn't until I heard the expression "caminar mas que Kung Fu" (lit: walk farther than Kung Fu) for about the third time that I thought to ask someone just who or what Kung Fu was, and why he walked...
